bridge: simpler hash with salt

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Instead of hashing the whole Ethernet address, it should be faster
to just use the last 4 bytes. Add a random salt value to the hash
to make it more difficult to construct worst case DoS hash chains.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>

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Stephen Hemminger 2007-03-21 13:42:33 -07:00 • committed by David S. Miller

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